Think you're getting ripped off with microtransactions? 1up correspondent Jonathan "Jonnyram" Lumb reports to NeoGAF that the Japanese are getting it much, much worse.
In aquarium simulator Aquazone, there are only 480 achievement points that you can get out of the box (as opposed to 1000 for all other retail 360 software). They've just unleashed a whole bunch of downloadable new fish -- and if you buy all of them, it'll cost you 5000 (five thousand) points -- that's 7400 yen ($62)!
Oh, but it gets so much worse. The downloads are only 108 KB each. What's that mean? That means that the fish are already on the disc, they're just charging players to unlock them. Absolutely, unbelievably, absurdly ridiculous.
